Where: Panama (9.4° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ground Creek Member (Isla Colon Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• 2.2-1.4 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. S. Klaus, D. F. McNeill, A. F. Budd and A. G. Coates. 2012. Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata. Coral Reefs 31(1):191-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120275: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral
Thysanus navicula Duncan 1864 stony coral |